Otherwise a coredump started at the inconvinient moment can stop shutdown.target leaving the system in a halfway-down state: Pulling in shutdown.target/start from systemd-poweroff.service/start Added job shutdown.target/start to transaction. ... Keeping job shutdown.target/start because of systemd-poweroff.service/start ... [ OK ] Stopped target Remote File Systems. shutdown.target: starting held back, waiting for: systemd-networkd.socket sysinit.target: stopping held back, waiting for: remount_tmp.service systemd-coredump.socket: Incoming traffic ... systemd-coredump@0-243-0.service: Trying to enqueue job systemd-coredump@0-243-0.service/start/replace Added job systemd-coredump@0-243-0.service/start to transaction. Pulling in systemd-journald.socket/start from systemd-coredump@0-243-0.service/start Added job systemd-journald.socket/start to transaction. Pulling in system.slice/start from systemd-journald.socket/start Added job system.slice/start to transaction. Pulling in -.slice/start from system.slice/start Added job -.slice/start to transaction. Pulling in system-systemd\x2dcoredump.slice/start from systemd-coredump@0-243-0.service/start Added job system-systemd\x2dcoredump.slice/start to transaction. Pulling in system.slice/start from system-systemd\x2dcoredump.slice/start Pulling in shutdown.target/stop from system-systemd\x2dcoredump.slice/start Added job shutdown.target/stop to transaction. ... Keeping job systemd-poweroff.service/stop because of umount.target/stop Keeping job shutdown.target/stop because of systemd-coredump@0-243-0.service/start (cherry picked from commit 4e947bd04944e58df4103eee4cb8180b5008f143) (cherry picked from commit e11d3ec13c1ee7af65893e94d09d8b3b66cd99c9) (cherry picked from commit c8491deca6911eda63b9f06172d2c956762ba1b6)
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